When you're flying on a commercial jet, you naturally become very familiar with the sound and feeling of the powerful turbine engines. As you take off, you can feel their rumbling muscle rocketing the ...

Danish investigators have determined that an Airbus A320 crew’s aborting a landing, despite activating reverse-thrust, resulted in control difficulties as the aircraft climbed away with one engine’s ...

UK investigators have found that an Airbus A320 captain, having initiated a go-around on touchdown at Corfu, cycled the thrust levers forward and back after realising reverse-thrust had already been ...

Why did McDonnell Douglas design the C-17 Globemaster III with four engines instead of two or three? This question goes beyond a simple engineering choice; it touches on the aircraft’s mission profile ...